Ten minutes to write. Less time to read.

I’m a minimalist kind of person, willing to use a butter knife for a screwdriver if the situation calls for it. Willing to save dilapidated toothbrushes to use as cleaning tools. And willing to repurpose small cottage cheese containers for next Spring’s seedlings.

So . . . when a catalog titled “The Best Brushes” arrived on my doorstep last week, I wondered what type of brushes it advertised. I already understand baby bottle brushes, shoe polish brushes, and hair brushes.  It’s just that I haven’t found a secondary use for them.

This catalog opened my eyes to the myriad selection of brushes at our fingertips. There are cockpit duster brushes for landing on those dirty airstrips, spoke brushes to make your bicycle gleam, radiator brushes, gutter cleaner brushes, the dinner table brush in the shape of a hedgehog, the PC brush for keeping your keyboard immaculate, the laundry scrub brush, the back scrub brush in three versions, and the child’s massage brush.

With this last, I couldn’t tell if the child is receiving or giving the massage. No matter, these are a lot of assignments to give a dilapidated toothbrush. Perhaps I should do further research.